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Non Magnetic meteorite From our garden find.

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Lou from Wi.

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After the meteorite shower,son was hoeing weeds and up this came. It is a meteorite (rare find) NON MAGNETIC.Some goes for 3-$4.00 per gram. Ours weighs 4 0z. That price is for iron meteorite( magnetic field acceptable)The fact ours isn't makes it a rare find. Pictures shows length and if there is a doubting thomas, we can Video the fact it ISN"T Magnetic. Have any one of you found one and value there of? We are in the market to sell ours and buy a 10,000 acre ranch in Montana lol Don't I wish? JUst asking!
LOU.
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careful lou, that could be some kind of space alien egg!!!!! watch so it dont hatch. we found a magnetic one years ago walking beans. i think by brother may still have it. it was about the size of a goose egg.
 
Well, Lou, even if you can't get enough for that Montana ranch, you should at least come up with enough to get a new tape measure! LOL
 
Last one I found was green, but when I got close to it I didn"t have enough strentgh to pick it up. Funny thing is when I got further away I felt fine!!!

J/K, that is a cool find!
 
That looks like obsidian, which I've found before but I've never actually recognized anything like that as a meteorite.

Neat find.
 
Looks just like obsidian to me too. We have a larger piece that looks just like that. Picked it up from the glass mountain in the Inyo Craters area along hwy 395 on the east side of the Sierra.
 
Did you read that page you linked to? If it isn't magnetic, that's a real bad sign, and probably isn't a meteorite.

""I found one of those rare meteorites that doesn't stick to a magnet"
Unfortunately, that is not likely. Even the most experienced meteorite hunters who have found hundreds of specimens hardly ever find one of those rare meteorites which is not attracted to a magnet. The few meteorites that are not attracted to magnets look much like earth rocks and the majority of those have been found because it was a witnessed fall. If you've found a shiny metallic-looking rock that doesn't stick to a magnet, it's not a meteorite. The earth rock most commonly mistaken for a meteorite is hematite, a common iron oxide which has a bubbly red, gray, or black metallic surface, and is sometimes called a kidney stone. Please see "Streak Test" below for more information about identifying hematite. If you think you have found a rare lunar meteorite, unless it has fusion crust, please do not send it in to us for identification. Please see the Washington University in St. Louis web site on lunar meteorite identification."

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"2) The Magnet Test
Please remember, a meteorite will stick easily to a good magnet. If your rock does not adhere to a powerful magnet you almost certainly do not have a meteorite. There are many Earth rocks that also stick to magnets, so if your specimen adheres to a magnet it is not automatically a meteorite, but it's a step in the right direction."

I wouldn't spend the money just yet, but anything is possible.

David
 
It's neat, Lou! Hope you can make a pretty penny on it.

I have a little garden gnome in my rust garden - that meteorite would look cool beside him (all he has by him right now is a couple of lumps of coal that I found on our farm).
 


I'd agree with others - it does look like obsidian. Though you usually it'd have some of the distinctive "swirly" lines in broken areas.

To me it looks more like a chunk of anthracite coal.

meteorites usually have a peculiar look to them, caused by melting on their way through the atmosphere - they're sort of dimpled, with small to larger dimples like finger prints in clay. That melting forms a kind of crust on them.
 
Hey Hadley. Lex Luthor planted it along the road side and waited to see who felt weak and couldnt pick it up. With a Game camera he installed, he now knows you are STUPIDMAN er superman. Was Lois lane with you at the time? Up UP And Away big guy.LOL.
LOU
 
Hate to say it, but it doesn't resemble obsiderian, anthracite coal,(wont burn)Closely resembles hematite but still NON METALLIC.Don't think we had a volcano in the garden last week LOL.Dugan Lake was formed by a meteorite and dark, deep and water has a distinctive taste. Beautiful lake.(now property surrounding the lake is privately owned land. No more then 5 miles away from our home. I use to fish it before adjacent land was sold to a millionaire. I never searched for stones there.Well guess we will keep it just in case a rancher from BOSMAN MONTANA,with 1000 acres badly wishes to do a trade.Nothing is impossible and oh yes, we have a new tape measure.lol
LOU
 
Dave I LOVE THE LINE SAYING" IT COULD BE RARE"
Stranger things have happened. I read all the material we pointed out on our post. Dagnabit, I wouldn't know a meteorite if it crawled up and bit me in my private credentials. OUCH!!! Makes a good conversation piece though.
LOU
 
MarkB_MI, Nope no smelters or any welding done in that area, it was all new ground ( used to be a 7 ft hill) Found it after the meteorite shower and a few tillings with the tractor and tilling. Only smelting is done in Superior during the season, a 6 pack of frosty pop will buy you a bucket of smelt.LOL
LOU
 
Somebody has to find one, might as well be you, I reckon. It's not impossible, but it sounds as if the odds are against you.
David
 
Hello Lou,,, wanted to ask how your sweetpotatoes did,our plants dont look so good,I wont see them again till the weekend,but they didnt look good last weekend,,,,, Larry
 
Larry,
Their just starting to green up. been wet and cold at nights,so if we get warm and sunny they should perk up in no time.Thanks for asking.
Regards,LOU
 
Looked up a few months ago to the tin roof in my shop. There is a hole where something as big as a quarter came through the roof and the tin is bent inwards. Keep telling friends that there is a meteor over in that corner of the shop. One day I am going to clean that corner and figure out what it is.
Richard in NW SC
 
Lou, UW Madison will check out your find. Read the following webpage and compare your find with the pictures they have. If you still think you got a meteorite, get ahold of the Geology department. http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~museum/meteorite.html The Geology department had a display a few years ago of meteorites that fell in south western WI.
 
Lou, I found a strange "rock" buried in the ground years ago when we were digging to put in my driveway.
For years I thought it must be a meteorite.
It looks much like many meteorites found in Nantan, China.
It has the appearance of metal but does not attract a magnet. It does, however conduct electricity.
I bought a test kit and found that it does not contain nickel.
Apparently most metal meteorites contain some nickel and are magnetic.
After doing many researches on the web, as much as I hate to admit it, I think I have a "meteorwrong".
 
Over the years,I have found a couple meteorites. It"s hard to tell in the picture, but, the one on the left is translucent. I think it came from the planet Transluciea. The other one, of course, came from the red planet. I think, the only thing they are attracted to, is the dog.
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I found something that looked like that years ago, Showed it to Dad who said it was Coal Tar out of an old steam engine. Some coal contains iron so may show as magnetic depending on where it was dug. I then asked what the heck would a steam engine be doing in a field way out here in the middle of no where? Duh! Threshing wheat back in the day. Put a torch to a corner of it and see what it smells like.
 
Hello David:

I just searched and found the pictures of your building from 6 months ago. I have a few questions.

Don"t know if you"ll get this, but don"t know of any other way to get in touch.

Thanks.
 
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